Garment-supporter.



- W. P. KELLOGG.

GARMENT SUPPORTER. APPLICATION FILED Nov. 8, 1909.

Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

WALTER P. KELLOGG, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

GABMENT-SUPPORTEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1910.

Application filed November 8, 1909. Serial No. 526,800.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER P. KELLOGG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporters; and Ido hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1 a view in front elevation of a garment-supporter constructed inaccordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a View thereof in vertical sectionon the line ab of Fig. 1, through one of the eyelets. Fig. 3 a detachedview of the webbing showing one form which its retaining-end or stop mayassume. Fig. 4 a detached view of the slide. Fig. 5 a view in frontelevation showing another embodiment of my invention. Fig. 6 a viewthereof in vertical. central section. Fig. 7 a broken View in frontelevation showing the formation in another way of a retaining-end orstop upon the fixed end of the webbing. Fig. 8 a similar view showinganother mode of forming the retaining-end or stop upon the fixed end ofthe webbing.

My invention relates to an improvement in garment-supporters, the objectbeing to simplify and cheapen the mode of fastening the so called fixedend of the webbing to the metal trim of a garment-supporter, whateverform the supporter may assume.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a garment-supporterhaving certain details of construction and combinations of parts as willbe hereinafter de scribed and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, thenarrow length of webbing 2 which may be elastic or non-elastic, isfolded upon itself, and fastened to itself, so to speak, by twoeyelets 3located in line with each other, but in a line at a right angle to thelength of the webbing.

,In this way I form at the end to become the fixed end of the webbing, aretaining end or stop t relatively stiff in its character and of doublethe normal thickness of the webbing. The said retaining-end or stop awhen made as described, spreads open along its inner edge, as it were,to form a pocket 5 running at a right angle to the length of the webbingand receiving, as shown, the lower bar 6 of the slide 7 which also hasan upper bar 8, a threading-opening 9, and at its ends two sleeves 10,10, by means of which it is slidably mounted upon the parallel side bars11 of a loop also comprising a cross-bar 12 and forming a dependingintegral bend in the lower bar 13 of a safety-pin 14 having a coil 15, apin proper 16 and a sheet-metal guard 17 Under this construction awebbing-opening 18 is produced between the lower edge of the slide 7 andthe upper face of the cross-bar 12 and a webbing-opening 19 between theupper edge of the said slide and the pin 16 of the safety-pin. The metalparts described form what is known as the metal trim forgarment-supporters of the safety-pin type. In applying the webbin 2 tothis kind of metal trim, the free en of the webbing is passed from rearto front through the threading slot 9 in the slide 7 and drawn forwarduntil the retaining-end or stop 4 at the other end of the length ofwebbing is brought to a bearing upon the back of the slide 7. Now justassoon as any downward pull is exerted upon the webbing the inner edgeof its retaining-end 4: spreads open to form the pocket 5 which, as itopens, receives the inner upper corner of the lower bar 6 of the-slideas shown in Fig.

2, whereby the said end of the webbing 1S caught to the slide in such away that it cannot get free except by permitting the spread and caughton the lower bar of the.

slide, the free end of the webbing is passed from front to rear throughthe webbing opening 19, then upward back of the retaining-end 4t, andforward over the upper edge thereof and hence from rear to front throughthe webbing-opening 18 and then downward over the front face of theslide 7, and from front to rear through the webbingopening 19 at a pointdirectly under the loop 20 formed by passing the webbing around thelower bar 6 of the slide 7 Now when downward draft is exerted upon thefree end 2 of the webbing, those portions of the webbing threaded asabove described through the metal trim will be drawn taut and theretaining-end 4. will be drawn forward and pressed firmly against theback of the slide 7, as well as still further caught over the lower bar6 thereof. It will thus be seen that by my improvement I secure with aminimum length of webbing and without making the garment-supporterunduly thick, a very firm hitch of the webbing upon the metal trim.

In the modified construction shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 of the drawings,the end of the webbing 21 designed to become the fixed end thereof, isfolded upon itself and fastened to itself by means ofa long wire staple22 arranged transversely to the length of the webbing whereby I form aretainingend or stop 28 double the normal thickness of the webbing andrelatively stiff as compared with the same. The staple 22 is placedsufficiently within the inner edge of the retaining-end so that when thesame is in use it will spread open as shown in Fig. 6 and form a pocket24: extending transversely to the length of the webbing as shown in Fig.6, and receiving the upper inner corner of the lower bar 25 of a studcarrying plate 26 which is provided with a forwardly projecting stud 27as usual in garment-supporters of the loop and stud type. The said plate26 is formed with a webbingopening 28 and a corresponding webbingopening 29, the said opening 28 taking the place in the construction ofFigs. 5, 6 and 7, of the threading-opening 9 and webbing opening 19 ofthe construction of Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive. In webbing up the plate 26the free end of the webbing is passed from rear to front through the webhing-opening 28 and then downward over the front face of the bar 25 andrearward and upward over the retaining-end or stop 23, and thence fromrear to front through the webbing-opening 29 and upward. lVhen nowupward draft or strain is placed upon the free end 21 of the webbing,the retaining end 23 will be not only pressed forward against the backof the plate 26, but also drawn downward and its inner edge spread openover the upper inner corner of the bar 25 as shown in Fig. 6, wherebywith a minimum expenditure of webbing, the fixed end thereof is firmlyhitched, so to speak, to the metal trim.

In Fig; 8 of the drawings the webbing 30 is folded upon itself andfastened to itself by a line'of transverse stitching 3-1 so as to form aretaining-end or stop 32 the inner edge of which will spread open andhitch itself, so to speak, to a portion of the metal trim in the mannerdescribed by the other figures of the drawings.

I claim In a garment supporter, the combination with the metal trimthereof, the same having two-parallel webbing-openings, of a piece ofwebbing formed at, one end with a retaining end or stop double-thethickness of the webbing proper and produced by folding the web' uponitself and fastening it to itself, and the inner edge of the saidretaining end or stop-being free to be spread open so as to receive aportion of the metal trim under the draft of the webbing which is thushitched to the metal trim after the free end of the webbing has passedthrough the webbing openings of the trim.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses. V

I \VALTER I. KELLOGG.

\Vitnesses E. J. PAGE, \VINlFRED PEARSALL.

